Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

New Reference Datasets Enhance Weather Satellite Data Quality

“Traffic and weather, together on the hour!” blasts your local radio station, while your smartphone knows the weather halfway across the world. A network of…

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NASA’s Moon Data Refines 2017 Eclipse Path Accuracy

On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, millions in the U.S. will have their eyes to the sky as they witness a total solar eclipse. The moon's shadow will race across the…

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Fast Radio Burst Galaxy Identified 3 Billion Light Years Away

The galaxy, located over 3 billion light years away, is small, a so-called dwarf galaxy, and very different to our own Milky Way. Also, a persistent, compact…

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Researchers Discover Extremely Rare Hoag-Type Galaxy

“Less than 0.1% of all observed galaxies are Hoag-type galaxies,” says Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, lead author of a paper on this work and a graduate student at the…

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Hubble Observes Cosmic Megamaser in Distant Galaxy

A megamaser is a process where some components within a galaxy (like gas clouds) are in the right stimulated physical condition to radiate intense energy (in…

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Diamonds are technologists' best friends

Physicists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University have obtained diamond crystals in the form of a regular pyramid of micrometer size. Moreover, in…

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Skyrmion Hall Effect: New Insights from JGU and MIT Researchers

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made another important breakthrough in the…

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Discover the Hidden Inferno in Your Laser Pointer

If you thought that a kid's room, a Norwegian Nobel Laureate and a laser pointer had nothing in common, two UA physicists are about to enlighten you.

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Short-Lived Tetraneutron: New Insights from Moscow Researchers

A member of the Lomonosov Moscow State University together with his colleagues, using new interaction between neutrons, have theoretically justified the…

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Exploring Quantum Vacuum: Insights from Niels Bohr Institute

Quantum mechanics dictates sensitivity limits in the measurements of displacement, velocity and acceleration. A recent experiment at the Niels Bohr Institute…

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Graphene’s Breakthrough: Transporting Huge Nano Currents

Once again, graphene has proven itself to be a rather special material: an international research team led by Professor Fritz Aumayr from the Institute of…

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New Technique Enables Quick Identification of Elusive Molecules

Now, Stuart Lindsay, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, has devised a clever means of identifying these molecules quickly and…

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New Time-Magnifying Technique Uncovers Rogue Wave Instabilities

Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies time to reveal how ultrafast intense pulses…

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Laser Pulses Unravel Complex Electron Interactions in Materials

Understanding the properties of complex quantum materials is a major goal of condensed matter physics and materials science, since effects like…

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Researchers Model Nuclear Future Through Dislocation Mobility

Physicists from MIPT and the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences described the mobility of line defects, or dislocations,…

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Protons Make Waves: AWAKE Project Hits Key Milestone

It is already possible to foresee that the information from existing accelerator experiments is limited. Many unresolved questions regarding the structure of…

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